Michal Kedem

Party platform (not candidate-specific): a $35-an-hour minimum wage with full penalty rates in government-funded and public-sector work, an end to the below-inflation public sector wage cap, and expanded public jobs/services to ease cost-of-living pressure.

Party platform (not candidate-specific): wages and public services should be sufficient that people don't need to rely on credit for essentials like housing and food; a state-owned bank would lend to owner-occupiers below market rates.

Is a community lawyer whose work focuses on defending people against police and government authorities facing unfair charges linked to homelessness, race, mental health, age, domestic violence circumstances, or protest activity.

"We need more funding for healthcare, education including childcare, and housing, not more police, prisons, defence or deportations."

Party platform (not candidate-specific): raise the age of criminal responsibility to 16, abolish mandatory sentencing, and establish a legal presumption in favour of bail for all offences.

It also calls to reverse recent police funding increases, disarm patrol officers of military-style and non-lethal weapons, and create an independent police ombudsman.

Increased housing investment and support is listed among her key policy priorities.

Party platform (not candidate-specific): a 25% rent cut followed by a five-year freeze, rent rises capped at half of CPI or WPI, a state bank offering below-market mortgages, and a 30% vacant-land tax.

It also proposes a ban on owning more than five properties, construction of 15,000+ public housing units a year for a decade, and a goal of ending rough sleeping within six months.

Party platform (not candidate-specific): fund spending through a 10% wealth tax on billionaires, a luxury property tax on the top 1% of residences, doubled payroll tax on large companies, and a flat 35% mineral royalty rate.

It also proposes a 20% bank profits tax on the five biggest banks and market-rate leasing of public assets such as Crown Casino, rather than through discussion of state debt management specifically.

Party platform (not candidate-specific): bring public transport into full public ownership and make it free, expand high-frequency and overnight services, and extend rail into underserved growth corridors.

It also proposes removing tolls from privatised roads and returning the Port of Melbourne and Melbourne Airport to public ownership while opposing a third runway.

Increased funding for public education, including childcare, is listed among her key policy priorities, echoed in her quote calling for "more funding for healthcare, education including childcare, and housing."

Party platform (not candidate-specific): end public funding to high-fee private schools, fund a "Gonski-plus" minimum spending standard, cut secondary class sizes from 25 to a maximum of 15, hire 12,000 additional teachers and support staff, and make state education (including early years) free.

Increased funding for healthcare is listed among her key policy priorities, echoed directly in her quote calling for "more funding for healthcare, education including childcare, and housing."

Party platform (not candidate-specific): lift public hospital bed capacity to at least 3 per 1,000 Victorians, raise healthcare worker wages at least 2.5% above inflation, and enforce staff-to-patient ratios.

It also proposes establishing free public community health centres with GP, dental and mental health services, and expanding the ambulance fleet while removing Ambulance Victoria membership fees.

Party platform (not candidate-specific): mandate inclusionary zoning of at least 30% public/low-cost housing in new developments, and strengthen heritage protection with no-compensation acquisition penalties for illegal demolition.

It also proposes permanently protecting the Green Wedges from rezoning and mandating 30% canopy tree coverage in new developments.

Party platform (not candidate-specific): accelerate the transition to a 100% renewable energy grid via offshore wind, utility-scale solar, battery storage and pumped hydro.

It also proposes establishing a publicly owned not-for-profit energy operator and expanding rooftop solar on public housing, schools and community facilities.

Party platform (not candidate-specific): treaty processes are "only meaningful if they deliver material change not just symbolic recognition."

It also proposes extending the powers of the statewide and local Treaties, funding reparations for First Nations people via a tax on commercial properties, and reducing the number of First Nations children in out-of-home care.